TY  - JOUR
AU  - Voigtländer, B.
TI  - Fundamental processes in Si/Si and Ge/Si epitaxy studied by scanning tunneling microscopy during growth
JO  - Surface science reports
VL  - 43
SN  - 0167-5729
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
PB  - Elsevier Science
M1  - PreJuSER-40427
SP  - 127
PY  - 2001
N1  - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
AB  - Experimental results on the epitaxy of Si and Ge on Si(0 0 1) and Si(1 1 1) surfaces, which are obtained by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) imaging during growth, are reviewed. Techniques for simultaneous epitaxial growth and STM measurements at high temperature are described. The ability to access the evolution of the growth morphology during growth down to the atomic level enables the study of the influence of surface reconstruction on the growth. The relatively complete characterization of the growth process facilitates comparison to theoretical models and allows the identification of fundamental growth processes. For instance, the observed transition between different growth modes can be explained by specific growth processes included in a model. The influence of strain on the growth morphology is reviewed for the case of heteroepitaxial growth of Ge on Si. With the method of combining STM imaging and epitaxial growth, the transition from two-dimensional to three-dimensional growth as well as the evolution of size and shape of three-dimensional islands can be studied. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000171678700001
DO  - DOI:10.1016/S0167-5729(01)00012-7
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/40427
ER  -